Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Peter]

Is that a 220?

[LGP Eddie]

Is that a 220?

 

Only a little un!

 

It's an EC160 NLC, which was basically specced because it'll pick up the 20 tonne attachments the owner has for his CAT 320, but this is a far handier size machine.

It was specced with the Narrow, Long, Carriage and 900mm wide pads, as this gives decent floatation without going crazy on overall width.

It should have 45mm cut off the outside edge of each pad, and then it would be 2.9 for easy transport.

 

It also has twin proportional auxiliary circuits and case drain to be able to utilise pretty much anything from a Selector Grab to Screening Bucket.

 

I like it a lot, but it needs a much better mirror package adding, as vision to the rear corners is poor, and a camera is no substitute, for a mirror facing inward towards the counterweight.

 

 

Eddie.

[Peter]

80mm pin quick hitch?

 

I had a 220 on hire just before Christmas, really impressed with it. Compact but powerful, looked tiny next to a 26 tonne hitachi on the same site but easily chucked some big poplar sticks around.

[LGP Eddie]

80mm pin quick hitch?

 

I had a 220 on hire just before Christmas, really impressed with it. Compact but powerful, looked tiny next to a 26 tonne hitachi on the same site but easily chucked some big poplar sticks around.

 

Yes Miller Twinlock on 80mm pins and 20 tonne undercarriage/motors.

 

You must have big fields your way if you describe a 220 as compact!

 

 

Eddie.

[Peter]

It was a big field, clear fell of around 200 large trees, so it needed a decent size machine to handle them.

[LGP Eddie]

It was a big field, clear fell of around 200 large trees, so it needed a decent size machine to handle them.

 

It's the way forward on a job that size, and a 220 would be well in it's capacity. I'm not a Volvo man, as I had bad experiences with the very early models, but boy have they come a long way from then, all credit to Volvo.

 

 

Eddie.

[IVECOKID]

I've been handed the keys to this to help out the Kubota on the heavier work.

Let's just say I wasn't complaining! It was specced by myself for the owner and is simply a thing of beauty!

 

 

Eddie.

 

 

Quality bit of kit they are .

 

 

Ste

[Stephen Blair]

well that top trumped Johns Yanmar Eddie!!!!

 

Cracking bit of kit!

[william127]

Going a bit smaller for a while, what attachments do people have for there 1.5 ton mini diggers?

I'm going to get a ripper tooth, thumb and a grapple, and buckets obviously, but what about:

Log splitters, post hole borers, timber grabs, hen peckers, rakes and things that hook on the blade.

Mainly out of curiosity, so pictures would be good please:thumbup:

[Stephen Blair]

i have the rake and tooth for my 3 tonner